The Cambodia YMCA staff has been trained to maintain the use the mobile equipment, and also to teach the schoolchildren using the resources in the lab and on the server. An agreement has also been made with them to continue bringing the lab to the school at regular intervals (e.g. 1-2 times a week) even after our project is over.
In 2013, Lab in a suitcase with computing resources such as e-Books, Wikipedia, educational videos and different kinds of offline applications to under-privileged kids or students in rural area.
Central Server approach with deploying a Raspberry PI server, a wireless router and tablets and mobile phones as the computing devices. wireless router provides access to the resources on the server. A onboard rechargeable batteries give the lab enough power to run for 5 hours on a single charge.
In Hong Kong, our students worked to set up the lab server and tested the mobile devices. They also designed and created a number of e-books that the children would be able to access by scanning a QR code on an illustrated “menu”.
Lab in a suitcase
Sen Sok (rural suburb in Phnom Penh)
Happy Tree
House of Rainbow Bridge orphanages.
Collaborative Partner
Installed Places
For transportation of the lab, we secured enough donations to buy a tuktuk (a motorized tricycle), and had the transportation end customized to fit our
requirements, including a secure storage area for the lab and ease of loading/unloading the equipment.
2012 - 2013
For transportation of the lab, we secured enough donations to buy a tuktuk (a motorized tricycle), and had the transportation end customized to fit our
requirements, including a secure storage area for the lab and ease of loading/unloading the equipment.
In 2014, base on the development from 2013, eLearning resources with local primary school curriculum was aligned. “Flipped classroom”eLearning resources for Maths and sciences and searched for videos that matched the topics from the Grades 4-6 maths textbooks. Each video link was then embedded into a QR code, which was pasted into the textbook. This allow the primary school students to quickly view the video corresponding to a topic by scanning the QR code with the mobile devices.
WebOrganic donated some resources of their own and helped us to contact the Hong Kong telecommunications company CSL, who kindly donated 30 devices from their stock of former demo models. All of this equipment is housed in two video equipment suitcases that have been modified to
accommodate and power the devices.
